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Wednesday, 26 December 2012

'Angelopolis' by Danielle Trussoni

Release date: 26th March 2013

Published by: Viking Books

ISBN No: 978 0670025541

Trussoni's Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and
biblical lore in the modern world as two star-crossed heroes were plunged into
an ancient battle against mankind's greatest enemy: the fatally attractive
angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. With ANGELOPOLIS, the conflict
deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound. A decade has passed since
Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge; the sight of her new
wings was a betrayal that still haunts him. Now an elite angel hunter for the
Society of Angelology, he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion: to
capture, imprison and eliminate her kind. But when Evangeline suddenly appears
on a twilit Paris street, Verlaine realises she is nothing like any of the other
creatures he so mercilessly pursues. He is sent into a spiral of doubt and
confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes by the society's
most wanted. Verlaine and his fellow angelologists chase the pair from Paris to
the palaces of St. Petersburg and deep into the provinces of Siberia and the
Black Sea coast, where the truth of Evangeline's origins, as well as forces that
could destroy them, lie in wait. Conceived against an astonishing fresh tableau
of history and science, ANGELOPOLIS encompasses Russia's imperial past, modern
genetics and ancient depictions of the Annunciation of Gabriel, in a high-octane
tale of abduction, treasure seeking and divine warfare as the fate of humanity
once again hangs in the balance.